Hi Debug Ducker here, and wow Sprint 2 came and went really fast. I have a lot to share today as well as realizations about myself and the project. Then afterwards I can say one last goodbye and sprint 3 ends, which is coming sooner than I think.
Now what I been working on these past few months was an inventory culling system that will tell the user whether or not food is past their expiration date by USDA standards. The progress on it as of now it more or less complete. It feels strange to say but we are pretty much at the finish line. This was felt after Sprint 1 were the path forward was decided and could be completed in due time. Which left the group working on the backend to not have a lot to do. Because the solution just needed time and everything would be fine.
After that we were pretty much done and I realize that some task can realistically be completed by two or less people. In a way I felt I wasn’t pulling my own weight. Perhaps I should have tried to be more involved with the process than I was and that could of made me feel that I was doing more. I guess that is the result of some projects that the seemingly big task was rather simple so now you just feel, rather empty about the whole thing.
Fortunately, I was given the task of filling out documentation, which is really important as what if the new people that work in this project need a guide. I and with some direction would be the one to write it all out. Documentation is a lot more important than people give credit, a place that can give you all the details about a project is rather handy when you are working on said project. Which I had something similar when I first started. Now I am working on clean up with another partner of mine, and we may be able to get that done soon too.
Last time I reference the book, “Apprenticeship Patterns”, by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye and there is a pattern that reminds me of this situation. The pattern was emptying the cup similar to accurate self-assessment, the idea here is that if you don’t allow yourself to be willing to learn or do more then you aren’t going to do better. I feel I should have pushed myself to at least see what else could have been done with the project, instead of feeling useless.
Here is my work on the Documentation, I mostly did the readme and fixed up the instructions
Here is the Backend work so far in collaboration with other group members. The result was full integration with the scanner side of the project which is almost done
Here is the Scanner portion done by the team focus on it
Thank you for your time and have a nice day
From the blog CS@Worcester – Debug Duck by debugducker and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.